Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 19:18:45 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Introduction to the list.



On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Ostrow/Kaneda wrote:

> >This time, this utopia of mass participation does not simultaneously
> >justify the leadership of the artistic elite. What's a poor radical
> >intellectual to do?
> 
>  I do believe your looking for leadership in all the wrong places  -- these
> poor folk were just following and miming a trend that they did not
> understand --  perhaps you should stop using art magazines as your source
> of intellectual stimuli --

Who do you imagine is looking for leadership? The "poor folk" don't want
these prescribed notions of the same -- and I appreciate that it's a big
pill to suddenly swallow: Ironically, you may have already succeeded in
some fashion/degree despite yourselves; and there's maybe no way for you
to allow yourself to see it... -- I'm being very generous... it must be
this California sun... 

(Politically, we need to re-establish the division between policy and
administration.) 

So Saul, what courses do you teach? And how do your students
respond/participate?


/:b





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